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...INDIA Border Battles Bangladesh and India met to calm hostilities on their disputed border after clashes killed at least 18 soldiers. India's Ministry of External Affairs said the two countries had agreed to return to positions they held before Bangladeshi border guards occupied a strip of land inside India, including a village they claim to be theirs. Some 20,000 civilians fled the fighting, which was halted by the hoisting of white flags...
Critics and store buyers have come to view fashion shows by Japanese designers - including Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des GarCons - as moments of calm and intellectual stimulation in fashion weeks too often filled with mundane clothes and headline-grabbing shock theatricals. Yet despite the dramatic impact of the great Japanese designers over the past 20 years, they remain niche players in the industry. Although no one disputes the artistry and creative brilliance of the major Japanese talents, young Americans and Brits are the ones who have been named to take over the great Paris fashion houses...
Those involved agree that the situation inside the building has remained mostly calm--thanks in large part to the fact that police and students have maintained good relations in the past...
...Yoga is the single best system of preventive medicine there is," says McCall, echoing a belief subscribed to by more and more doctors. "It increases strength, flexibility, balance, and brings psychological calm. It can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, tap into spiritual leanings and be a heck of a good aerobic workout...
...spend this much time slowly and gently stretching is a luxury that I enjoy nowhere else in my life. At the end of the class, after Leah has thanked us for letting her teach and told us to congratulate ourselves for getting up so early, I feel calm and loose and energized. Muscle kinks have dissipated. I feel more powerful, and for the rest of the day standing straight is a relief rather than a discipline...